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China accused of largest incursion into Taiwanese airspace as US-Philippines South China Sea military drills begin
Russia Today 12 Apr 2021
Taiwan has accused the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of its largest incursion of the nation's air defense zone with jets and nuclear-capable bombers, as joint US-Philippines military drills begin in the South China Sea ... 25 PLA aircraft (Y-8 ASW*2, KJ-500 AEW&C, J-10*4, J-16*14 and H-6K*4) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on Apr. 12, 2021.
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Court told of 'fraudulent' Brexit agreement
Belfast Telegraph 12 Apr 2021
Boris Johnson allegedly signed the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement on a "fraudulent" basis, the Court of Appeal heard on Monday. Senior judges were told the Prime Minister acted in bad faith because he never intended to keep to the terms of the UK's departure from the European Union ... Barry Macdonald QC contended ... Mr Macdonald added ... .
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As Israel rejects the ICC investigation, what are the possible scenarios?
Middle East Monitor 12 Apr 2021
The Israeli government's position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes committed in occupied Palestine has finally been declared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ... As a result, he added, Israel "completely rejects" any accusations that it has committed war crimes.
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You are being WATCHED! Protested lately? You have been RECORDED
WorldNews.com 12 Apr 2021
You are being WATCHED! Protested lately? You have been RECORDED.
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Russia puts feminist activist on trial for pornography
Albuquerque Journal 12 Apr 2021
MOSCOW — A feminist artist went on trial Monday in Russia on charges of disseminating pornography after she shared artwork online depicting female bodies. Human rights groups linked her prosecution to the Kremlin’s conservative stance promoting “traditional family values.” ... ADVERTISEMENTSkip ... Petersburg ... “It is terrifying.
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Will Smith Pulls ‘Emancipation’ Production From Georgia in Protest of New Voting Law
Rollingstone 12 Apr 2021
Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua announced that they are pulling the production of their new movie, Emancipation, from Georgia because of the state’s new voting law, The New York Times reports ... Production on Emancipation was set to begin this summer ... ....
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Nearly 40% of Marines decline COVID-19 vaccine, prompting some lawmakers to urge Biden to set mandate for military
Stars and Stripes 12 Apr 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. (Tribune News Service) — Nearly 40% of U.S ... Andrew Woods told USA TODAY ... military service members to get the vaccine ... ....
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Iran used fake Instagram accounts to try to nab Israelis: spy agencies
The New Arab 12 Apr 2021
Israeli spy agencies accused Iran of using fake social media accounts to lure its citizens abroad to harm them. Israeli spy agencies accused Iran on Monday of using fake social media accounts to lure citizens of the Jewish state abroad "to harm or abduct them" ... "The person was warned by (Israeli) intelligence and returned (home)," the official said.
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Police: Minnesota officer in fatal shooting meant to draw Taser, not handgun
Stars and Stripes 12 Apr 2021
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — The police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, as the man struggled with police, the city’s police chief said Monday ... She draws her weapon after the man breaks free from police outside his car and gets back behind the wheel ... ....
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New Jurassic flying reptile reveals the oldest opposed thumb
Phys Dot Org 12 Apr 2021
A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed 'Monkeydactyl', has the oldest true opposed thumb—a novel structure previously not known in pterosaurs ... It is a small-bodied darwinopteran pterosaur, with an estimated wingspan of 85 cm. Most importantly, the specimen was preserved with an opposed pollex ("thumb") on both hands ... Rodrigo V.
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US military tankers cross into western Iraq with smuggled Syrian crude oil: SANA
Press TV 12 Apr 2021
The US military has used dozens of tanker trucks to smuggle crude oil from the Jazira region in the Arab country’s northeastern province of Hasakah to western Iraq as Washington is pushing to further plunder energy resources in the conflict-stricken Arab state ... US helicopters transport weapons, logistic material from Iraq to Syria’s Hasakah. Report ... .
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Airborne plastic pollution ‘spiralling around the globe’, study finds
The Observer 12 Apr 2021
Microplastic pollution is now “spiralling around the globe”, according to a study of airborne plastic particles. The researchers said human pollution has led to a global plastic cycle, akin to natural processes such as the carbon cycle, with plastic moving through the atmosphere, oceans and land ... Photograph ... Read more ... Stohl said ... Reuse this content. .
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Curfew in Minneapolis amid protests against police murder of black father Daunte Wright
The New Arab 12 Apr 2021
A suburb of Minneapolis was under curfew early Monday after US police fatally shot Daunte Wright, a young unarmed Black man, sparking protests. A suburb of Minneapolis was under curfew early Monday after US police fatally shot a young Black man, sparking protests not far from where a former police officer was on trial for the murder of George Floyd.
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German police suspected of supplying ammunition to anti-Muslim extremists
Arab News 12 Apr 2021
LONDON. At least 20 German police officers are suspected of stealing service-issue pistol, submachine gun and sniper rifle ammunition and giving it to a shooting range linked to a far-right extremist group ... A police raid on one of the group’s founders, a police officer known as Marko G, 50, uncovered 55,000 cartridges for various weapons ... ....
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More Zlatan Ibrahimovic controversy after lockdown restaurant 'meeting'
Independent online (SA) 12 Apr 2021
MILAN – Zlatan Ibrahimovic was again in the headlines for non-football reasons on Monday after he was reportedly pictured in a Milan restaurant while the city was in a coronavirus lockdown ... Sunday was the last day of lockdown in the Lombardy region where Milan is located and several other regions with improving contagion statistics ... AFP .
